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Denounce the Dead. Right or wrong, his clients pay for their freedom. Not long ago, Foreman pocketed $200,000 for winning Houston Oil Heiress Cecil Blaffer Hudson a record divorce settlement of $6,500,000. If his clients lack cash, Foreman accepts anything else of value. He now owns more than 40 houses and an office building in Houston, plus several hundred acres scattered throughout Harris County (Houston). His wife pads around their $75,000 home in a pair of house slippers studded with diamond engagement rings earned from his clients...
...More than Bobo!" cheered Mrs. Cecil Blaffer Hudson, 43, and that was what she got-$6.5 million, beating Bobo Rockefeller's 1954 divorce settlement by a cool $100,000. Not that the money mattered-she was already an heiress to the Humble Oil fortune amassed by her father, Robert Lee Blaffer-but it made the finish of her 17-year marriage to Edward Joseph Hudson, 56 (Hudson Oil and Gas), quite a bit brighter. "I'm so happy I could sing," said the ex-Mrs. Hudson as she considered a future sweetened by an estimated...
...Maja and Two Toreros, its gaily clad figures oddly accented by the sinister tones of its wooded background. Under Kress conditions, Houston would not have gotten the pictures unless they could be displayed in an air-conditioned gallery. New air conditioning was contributed by rich, young (40) Oilman John Blaffer. Said Blaffer recently: "I'm a whisky and trombone man myself. [But] Texas is reaching an artistic and cultural stage comparable to New York...
...time Mississippi lawyer (in Oxford), Mr. Farish joined the oil rush to Texas after the discovery of the famed Spindletop field at the Century's turn. Working as a roustabout, he saved his pennies, kept an eye peeled for big money. He went into partnership with Robert Lee Blaffer and out of their small beginnings grew Humble Oil Co., the mighty company which Standard now controls. Mr. Parish's official residence is still Houston, though he lives most of the time on Park Avenue, Manhattan. He likes to shoot quail in Thomasville, Ga., where he owns...